Shaped Quotes

626 quotes by 525 authors

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father. — Saif Ali Khan
Great leadership isnâ€™t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they… — Charles M. Blow
There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, â€˜Here I… — Barbara Brown Taylor
I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that… — Klaus Schulze
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice,… — Katrina Kenison
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it… — Wallace Stegner
The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again,… — Toni Morrison
We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily… — Ed Mayo
There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which… — Charles de Gaulle
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the… — Max Horkheimer
There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had. — Guy Gavriel Kay
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. — Doris Kearns Goodwin
One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride… — James Keller
While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments… — Jon Meacham
Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see… — Richard Bach
He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his… — Elizabeth Berg
I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends… — James W. Fowler
In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed… — Walt Whitman
The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they did. This is… — Peggy Noonan

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